Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-02
LONG PURSES.
SOMETHING ABOUT OUR RICH AMEgI-
CAN WOMEN.
Hetty Green with Her s3o,OOo,oOo is
Probably the wealthiest
OF Them.
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foot up from S35, 600, 900 to $40, 900, 900,
| suppose. She inherited Sl3, 600, 900,
married 81, 0O0,0 and has made the
rest by shrewd fnanciering. Another
clear-headed woman is Miss Elizabeth
Garrett, who must have 900, 600 900 or
more and who knows how to take
care of it. She was her fathers pri-
vate secretary for years and under
stands Baltimore and Ohio stock as
we'll as anybody. Miss Garrett is
not as iich as she would he If she were
less charitable. She never filings money
away rechlessly, but eXpends large
sums with discrimination and good
sense on educational and philanthropic
projects Mrs. Mark Hopkins is richer
than Miss Garrett, though her neigh
bors, the village folk, are less enthusi-
astic about her than they used to be
before she put up high fence or
Chinese wall about that $4,000, 900
palace Of hers at Great Darlington.
Mrs. Hopkins is not worth less than
$50, 600, 600 or $50, 000,000 probably,
and she, too, is noted for her charity.
Mrs. Emily H. Moir, the heir of the
Morgan property, pays the largest per-
sonal assessment OF any woman in New
York, and Mrs. Sarah fl. Green comes
next to her. Mrs. John Jacob Aston has
tidy sum Of from $1,000, 900 to
$9,000,000.
Rich New York widows estimated at
from LOCO, 900 to IS, 600. 600 abound,
and there are some hundreds OF un
married women under thirty who have
from 100000 upward in their own
name. Mrs. W. E. Dodge has invested
her money well, and it amounts to
$4,000, 600 perhaps. Commodore Van
derbilt's widow has something more
than double what her husband left her.
Mrs. Robert Goelet and Clarkson Pot
ter's widow are not poor. Miss May
Calender must be worth a mil
lion. The Misses Leary and the Misses
FuTniss, of Fifth avenue, have large
incomes. Miss Adele Grant, who has
been starring it with Miss Winslow for
foil, has 800, 600 or more. Mrs. Lang
try has got above the 100000 mark.
Mrs. John Minturn has money. Miss
Grace II. Dodge has a fortune OF her
OVID. Mrs. Frank Leslie must have
81, 900 00. Mrs. HicksLord has sew
eIal millions.
There are come married women in
New York who have private fortunes.
Mrs. Whitney has plenty and will have
more. Whitelaw Reid got his money
with d. O. Mills's daughter, and Mayor
Hewitt his with Peter Cooper's daugh
ter.
A rich New Highlander Is Mrs. SUIT
ton, of Peabody, Mass. Her husband
left her S5,O0O,000. She has made it
not far from SG,0G0,G00. She has not
had a happy life, for the one son on
whom she set her heart broke his col
lar-bone half a dozen times falling from
ottomans and chairs, and finally broke
his neck falling from a Shetland pony.
She has endowed a magnificent refer
ence-library room in the Peabody
Library, founded by George Peabody,
and her boys picture, framed in gold,
hangs on its walls. Mrs. Frederick
Lenoir, Of Springfield, is another rich
Bay State woman, owning perhaps
a4,000,00O. Agassiz's daughter, Mrs.
Shaw, Of Boston, is made wealthy by
her husbands gifts, and supports great
numbers OF free kindergartens.
One Of the wealthiost Baltimore
danes is Mrs. Hutton, daughter Of
Thomas Winans. She has $4,000, 900
or more. Mrs. Sarah McEvoy, of Chi
cago, has half that perhaps. Mrs. G.
II. Mccormick, of Chicago, has about
that much.
The DreXel sisters, of Philadelphia,
have some millions apiece, and the
widow of Tom Scott. the railroad pre-
sident, had $1,000 600 or Sj,0O0,000
left her 10y her husband. There are
dozens of rich Philadelphia widows
and some good catches among the
helresses. Miss Ellen Erben, for in
stance, has big income. Miss Lillian
Reeves and Miss Helen Rives, late set
tiers in the City Of Brotherly Love-
have not less than 81, 100000 apiece.
Mrs. Disston has great deal of
money.
Washington is not city OF rich
women, but there are several who have
81, 000,0 600, some who have more than
that sum. 1t would be hard, indeed,
to find city IN the United States
which has not women whose property
lists reckon up good sums. Major
Burke's wife, Of New Orleans, and Mrs.
Nicholson, editor and owner Of the
Picayune Of that city, are rich south
ern ladies, and Miss Celeste Stauffer,
to whom Tilden left 10000 is one
of the prettiest and brightest young
women OF that city as well.
Mrs Alvinza Hayward, wife Of the
San Francisco capitalist, has g, 100000
which her husband gave her in her own
name. Her married experience has
been a checkered one. She married
Hayward no long time after he began
life with 800 and his freedom suit, and
was left behind in Minnesota while her
husband went West to look for gold.
She did not hear from him for
a number of years, and it is
reported that he said she never
would have heard from him If he
had not struck it rich. He got down
to his last dollar, borrowed from Flood
or some one OF tue bOnanza-men to put
into a mipe that for some reason he !
had faith in, struck pay-dirt, divided |
up handsomely with his bcnefactor.
and all went merry, though some of
the younger men have heaped up big
ger piles since. Hayward doesn't be-
heve in extravaganza, 50 he launched |
his son with $4,000 only when he came |
of age.
There are number of cattle queens |
who have made money. Mrs. Henry |
Q. Meredith, OF Cambridge City, Ind, |
has inherited famous stock-farm from |
her husband, who in turn received it |
from General Sol. Meredith. his father.
Mrs. Meredith is an authority in her
business, and was the only woman pres
ent at the annual meeting of the In
diana Shorthorn Breeders Association
at Indianapolis few weeks ago. Miss
Annie Thomas, of Billings, Mo-, has a
big ranch and two paying mines near
Butte City. Mrs. Rogers, the Texas
has made a million.
Mrs. Bishop Lift Warren, who got
her money from Iliif, the Colorado
cattle king, is wealthy woman. She
manages her ranch personally and
shows excellent business judgment.
Prima donnas one takes for granted.
Pal ii gave a million francs to NJ. de
Caux to get rid OF him. Lucca gave a
good bit to her husband. Nillson pen
stoned Rouzeaud, and Gerster has pen
stoned Gardini.